As a journalist, Lori has written about various topics, ranging from graffiti to growing businesses, the evolution of blue jeans and remakes of blues songs. She has covered science, technology, the arts, music, entertainment, and books for several national publications.
Previously, she wrote a column for Forbes on startups, entrepreneurs, and technology. Prior to Forbes, Lori served as senior editor at the Los Angeles Times, and also wrote for the publication. She enjoys exploring topics that combine disciplines -- art and technology or the merger of tech and media overall.
As an author, her fiction has been published by Akashic Books, the University of Nevada Press, Trop, and other independent publishing houses. She has received grants for and been accepted into artists’ residencies in Italy, Iceland, Sweden, France, and Ireland.
See below for a list of selected works from her portfolio. Her latest personal essay appears at Shondaland.com, called “Things That Break Down” about what to do when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in Iceland and what we could be contributing to preserving the planet.
Business + Technology
Entertainment and Technology Meet In Hollywood's Backyard - (Variety cover story)
The Science of Social Games - (Forbes)
How To Start Your Own Record Company - (Forbes)
A New Way To Save The Book Industry, Pixel By Pixel - (Forbes)
The 21st Century Workplace: Mobile, Together, More Like Sci-Fi, and More Like Us - (Forbes)
The New Race To Space, From L.A. - (Forbes)
The Future of T.V.: Digital, Traditional, And Something In Between - (Forbes)
Women In Entrepreneurship: Amplifying Voices - (Forbes)
Impact Investing: The Power of Two (or Three) Bottom Lines - (Forbes)
What's Next For Art In The Digital Age? A Conversation To Be Continued (Forbes)
For The Love Of Artists: Talenthouse Is Technology Connecting The Established And The Emerging (Forbes)
A Startup Network, Old Hollywood, And Media Shifting - (Forbes)
The Great Mobile Takeover - (Forbes)
The Future of the Web Looks a Lot Like You - (Forbes)
The Future of Content - A series in five parts (Forbes): 1. How To Improve Ads On The Web
2. The Case For Good News and Action
3. Visual Culture and the Ephemeral
Art and Technology Get Closer In L.A. - (Forbes)
Everything Is Connected: What "The Internet of Things" Means Now - (Forbes)
Diversifying Tech: Crowdfunding For Women and Underserved Groups (Forbes)
Science + Environment
Conversations In Science: How Jellyfish Are Informing The Future of Engineering - (Los Angeles Times)
Conversations In Science: Bringing Science Back Into America's Sphere - (Los Angeles Times)
Conversations In Science: MIT Designs a Fleet of Robots to Clean Up Oil Spills - (Los Angeles Times)
Conversations In Science: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other - (Los Angeles Times)
Urban Beekeepers Know That It's More Than Honey and Money - (Los Angeles Times)
Conversations In Science: The World in 2050: Predictions for the Arctic and Everything Below - (Los Angeles Times)
Conversations In Science: How To Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - (Los Angeles Times)
Conversations In Science: What Microbes Do On A Saturday Night (Los Angeles Times)
National Affairs + Politics
The Women of OccupyLA Speak Out About Hard Times - (Ms. Magazine)
Q&A with Max Blumenthal, author of 'Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party' - (Los Angeles Times)
A Startup For Smarter (And More) Voters - (Forbes)
Fatima Bhutto's Love-Hate Affair with Her Native Pakistan - (Los Angeles Times)
MUSIC, Books, Art, + Ideas
Working and Not Working: American Tradition, American Peril - (Los Angeles Review of Books)
'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other' - An interview with Sherry Turkle (Los Angeles Times)
Half the Sky: Wishing to Change the World for Women - (Ms. Magazine)
The Mark of Capone: Chicago Violence Now and Then - (Los Angeles Review of Books)
The History of Unicorns and the Curious Case of One Gone Missing in NYC - (Los Angeles Times)
Buzz Aldrin on His New Book, Space Exploration, and Rapping - (Los Angeles Times)
Creative Writing: Fiction + Essays
How Jellyfish Make Love - A short story about a forlorn jellyfish looking for love. (Fictionaut)
Things That Break Down - Personal essay on what happens when your car breaks down in Iceland. (Shondaland)